After 18 months of student-led protests, the president pledges to step down a year early, hints at becoming prime minister, and vows his bloc will win 'more convincingly than ever'

The unresolved sovereignty dispute between Serbia and Kosovo, rooted in Kosovo's 2008 independence declaration, that has kept the western Balkans' most volatile territorial question open for nearly two decades.

An eight-day shutdown of the only remaining transit route foreshadows the EU's full Russian-gas phase-out by 2028

Kallas has chaired no high-level meeting; Special Representative Sørensen is stalled by instability in both capitals as the EU lifts its punitive measures on Kosovo